Prisca has accepted a group leader position in quantitative cell biology at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, where she will start 1 July 2015. She has also been awarded with the highly competitive ‘SNSF professorship‘ grant for a project that she will start there, which entitles her to be an assistant professor at the University of Basel. Congratulations.

Check out the beautiful cover on the June 5 issue of Cell, which is an artistic impression of regulatory genetic interactions in endocytic membrane trafficking, made by Lavinia Liberali and Luca Pitoni. It accompanies the Resource Article entitled:

On January 1, Doris Berchtold joined our lab as a postdoctoral fellow funded by a HFSP fellowship. Doris did her PhD in the laboratory of Tobias Walther at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany. In her PhD work, she discovered a homeostasis mechanism by which cells respond to plasma membrane stress with compensatory changes in lipid synthesis. For more details, check here.

In our lab, Doris will apply her expertise in molecular cell biology to the poorly understood process of subcellular compartmentalisation through liquid phase transitions.